Post-Classical and Post-Modern

To clarify (or further obscure) 'postmodernism':

Fredric Jameson's "Postmodernism and Consumer Society"
As you read it relate it to the screening of Olivier Assayas' Irma Vep and be prepared to discuss the film in terms of its postmodern qualities.

Cinema/210 Reading Schedule

Moonrise Kingdom, Wes Anderson (USA, 2012)

Here's the updated reading schedule for Intro to Film. This is based on the 10th Edition of Bordwell & Thompson's Film Art. If you have previous editions you can compare the chapters with the Table of Contents of the 10th Edition that you can find here -click on the 'Look Inside' banner. Make sure you do not use a textbook that predates the 8th Edition.

Yay, Spring 2016!

Women In The Director's Chair - Film Series @ JCU

The JCU MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION SPEAKER SERIES, The Communications  and the Italian and modern languages departments together with istituto luce/cinecitta - filmitalia PRESENTS:

Women in The Director's Chair: First Time Italian Women Directors

showcasing the debut features by a new generation of Italian women directors.

Don't Miss the First Screening, Monday October 13 @7pm in the Aula Magna. The Director, Alina Marazzi, will be present at the event to introduce the film and take questions from the audience.

Nollywood Credit Crunch

We talked about Nollywood, the thriving Nigerian film industry, working in an alternative 'copyright' regime a while back. Here is an article from Modern Ghana about the credit crunch in that national film industry. Love the comparison of the cash crunch to a biblical plague --can you imagine the New York Times leading a story with this paragraph?

"Though it is cheery news that the cash crunch invading the world like the biblical plague in the time of Moses is showing signs of subsiding, the effect of the global cash crunch has, however, changed the power equation and landscape of the Nigerian movie industry otherwise known as Nollywood."

Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema: Encore

"Woman as image, man as bearer of the look"

Otto Preminger's Laura (1944)

Laura Mulvey, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
You can also find it in html format here.